BISHOP'S HOUSE
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II*
List Entry Number: 1202102
Date first listed: 08-Jan-1959
Statutory Address: BISHOP'S HOUSE, CLIFTON HILL
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Location
Statutory Address: BISHOP'S HOUSE, CLIFTON HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
District: City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
National Grid Reference: ST 57440 72929
Details
BRISTOL
ST5772NW CLIFTON HILL, Clifton
901-1/14/776 (North West side)
08/01/59 Bishop's House
GV II*
House. Dated 1711. Possibly by John Strachan. Limestone
ashlar, render, gable stacks and slate hipped roof.
Double-depth plan. Early Georgian style. 2 storeys, attic and
basement; 7-window range. A good symmetrical front with a
2-window left-hand wing; the central 1-window entrance section
is banded and broken forward, banded outer pilasters, to a
frieze and cornice, with a parapet with balustraded sections
to the windows and urns on the corners. The doorway has fluted
Ionic pilasters to a pulvinated frieze and segmental dated
pediment, rectangular fanlight and 6-panel door. The window
above has a pediment, keyed architraves and segmental heads,
flat to the left-hand section, to 6/6-pane sashes. Tooled
Pennant ground-floor quoin strip to the left-hand corner.
INTERIOR: good joinery, large central entrance stair hall
divided by a segmental arch with fluted pilasters, with half
panelling, to a rear open-well stair with column-on-vase
balusters, ramped moulded rail and a wide curtail;
fully-panelled right-hand front room has a marble fire
surround; panelled shutters and 6-panel doors.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the first of an important group of early and
mid C18 houses built in Clifton. Attribution on stylistic
grounds.
(Mowl T: To Build The Second City: Bristol: 1991-: 14; Gomme
A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History:
Bristol: 1979-: 123).
Listing NGR: ST5743972931
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 379235
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 123
Mowl, T, To Build a Second City, (1991), 14
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing